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It doesn’t help to have the most uncooperative dog to feature in a blog. Buddy hates getting his picture taken and refuses to look at me when I am holding the camera. I have to trick him into looking at me and, as you can see above, he didn’t take the bait.

Since it is October a friend and I watched a DVD of “The Wolfman” featuring Benicio Del Toro. Apparently it bombed at the box office when it came out in the theaters in 2010, but it’s one of my favorite horror movies. It has no sex and swearing, although there is some gore. I enjoy a good monster movie if it isn’t overly scary, because I don’t believe in vampires, werewolves or other monsters. But I generally avoid movies about ghosts, demons and witches because I believe there are real forces of evil in this world that should not be taken lightly.

Proverbs 11:27b warns: “he who seeks evil, evil will come to him.”

In my opinion, the movie “The Wolfman” is a cautionary tale against seeking out evil. And the conquering power of love over evil. (Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen the movie and want to, you might want to stop reading.)

Sir John Talbot is on a hunting expedition with his friends in India when the natives tell him about a “strange creature” that lives in the mountains. He spends several days hunting down this legendary creature until he comes upon a feral boy in a cave, stricken with the disease of lycanthropy. After being bitten by the “creature”, Sir John believes he’s the “butt of a joke” until, after returning to England, he transforms into a werewolf and murders his wife.

Sir John considered suicide to escape his monstrous existence, but life was “too glorious, especially to the curse and the damned”. Not once is forgiveness and deliverance in Jesus Christ considered; instead, he ultimately embraces his wickedness. Because Sir John didn’t take evil seriously, many other people are killed, including both his sons, ending his hereditary lineage. “But transgressors will be altogether destroyed; The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.”–Psalm 37:38

Sir John attacks his son, Lawrence, infecting him with lycanthropy, also. Although earlier in the movie, Lawrence states that a person can get used to any lifestyle, including his debauched stage actor life, he never embraces the evil lifestyle of a werewolf with its great sense of power and strength. He escapes his fate by being shot with a silver bullet by Gwen Conliffe, a woman who loves him. As he dies, Lawrence thanks Gwen for having the courage to rescue him. Only love delivers him from his wretched Satanic curse.

The best horror movies are cautionary tales about good and evil. And it’s my humble opinion that the best movies are ones which demonstrate the triumph of good over evil. I really dislike movies in which a person’s good deed is rewarded by being murdered by the monster (“Jeepers Creepers”, for instance).

God warns us in Deuteronomy 18:10-11 to stay away from the occult:

“There shall not be found among you anyone…who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.”

Far too many people ignore these warnings and get involved in tarot card reading, horoscopes, Ouija boards, palm reading, seances, drug use, and the like. God warns us not to get involved with such things, not because He doesn’t want us to have fun, but because it can invite Satanic powers into our lives. And He doesn’t want us to be in bondage to evil. Sir John Talbot thought hunting down the creature in the mountains was just a lark; he didn’t take evil seriously, even after he was bitten. As a result, his and many other lives were destroyed.

Some authors, I believe, are morally confused because they don’t know Jesus Christ.

The problem is: Only the word of God can help us to discern good from evil. When Adam and Eve rejected God’s authority in their lives by disobeying Him, their offspring, divorced from the indwelling presence of their Creator, lost the ability to truly know good from evil. When ancient Israel, living in the Promised Land, rejected the God of the Bible, they turned to human sacrifice and other abominations, shedding innocent blood. (Psalm 106:35-38)

Humanity became cursed and under the dominion of Satan, by rejecting the Creator. But God brought humanity back into a relationship with Himself by sending Christ to take the punishment for our sin, conquering Satan and the fear of death on the Cross.

“For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom have have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God..And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach…”

This Halloween, please claim the victory that Jesus Christ and His love gives us over the power of evil–evil within ourselves and the evil in the world.

God bless you from Dawn and Buddy

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If you want to know Jesus Christ, please pray: Dear Father, I acknowledge that I cannot earn my way to Heaven because no one is good enough to meet your perfect standard. I’ll never be good enough. Only Jesus lived the perfect life; He alone was sufficient to take the penalty for my sin. I ask that you forgive my sin. I believe that Jesus is Immanuel, God in the flesh, and took the punishment for my sin. Please grant me the gift of the Holy Spirit; help me to discern good from evil. Be my Good Shepherd; guide me into all righteousness. In Jesus’ holy name, amen.

If you prayed this prayer, please find a Bible-based church to grow in the knowledge of Jesus and to find fellowship with other Christians. Also, please get a Bible and start reading. I suggest starting in the New Testament with Matthew and reading your way through to the end. Then try the Psalms and then Proverbs. Then start back at the beginning with Genesis. There are some boring passages in the Old Testament, so I don’t recommend starting your Christian life at the beginning of the Bible.